DOT Officials, Colo., Promote Safe Driving Effort

Dec. 4, 2019

Officials from the U.S. Department of Transportation joined the Colorado Department of Transportation and other state organizations to remind drivers to share the road attentively.

Dec. 4, 2019—Officials from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) joined the Colorado Department of Transportation, Denver Public Works, and the Denver Police Department to remind all Colorado road users to share the road attentively and safely.

Denver Vision Zero is a five-year plan that calls for improved street design, safe speeds, a culture of safety and improved data.

Although overall traffic related deaths were down across the nation in 2018, fatalities among pedestrians and bicyclists and other vulnerable road users increased by 3.4 percent.